Of course they're seeking the death penalty. This "piece of excrement" really deserves to be put to death as soon as possible.
And I don't even care about his alleged "mental illness"....everybody knows "mental issues" are often used to avoid the death penalty for weirdos like Cummins.
I know the US Supreme Court says that those who have severe mental illness can't be sentenced to death but I think our "supreme" justices maybe must leave their Plato's hyperuranium and back to reality...
Imo, the DA already knows this monster isn't mentally ill by criminal judicial standards or they wouldn't seek the death penalty. He'd have a better chance of escaping the DP if his IQ was below 70.
Imo, he isn't mentally ill. He's like the majority of all murderers who are just saturated with evil, and mean as hell.
It puzzles me somewhat that when murders like this happen the first thing assumed is the defendants are mentally ill. It's assumed even more so if the murder defendant is a female. Why that is usually assumed almost immediately I've never been able to understood even after following murder cases including mass murders for over four decades.
All we crime bloggers have to do is either read here or watch all of the true crime shows to know being evil does not require mental illness. Often it requires a decayed dead soul who possesses no remorse or compassion for any other human being.
Sadly, I think we will see more, and more violent homicides rise this year after the overall homicide rate had declined in the past seven years in our country.
It seems now they dont even hide the violence or murderous rages anymore since we are seeing innocent victims being killed or gravely injured before our very eyes when people just stand there videoing it.
It shows so many do not value human life anymore. It's so frightening because it lets us all know none of us are really safe anymore no matter if we lead a law abiding life. We could still fall prey at anytime. At this point in time across our nation so many seem to think extreme violence is the answer to everything.
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so we may see more mass murders as well.
It's extremely rare for murder defendants to be found legally insane no matter the gender of the offender.
Is he prephaps a psychopath or sociopath? Very possible for many murderers are along with having narcissistic traits.
However, both know right from wrong, but they just don't care, which is usually proven in court as the evidence is presented by the prosecution witnesses during the trial.
Out of thousands of murders occurring each year only a teeny tiny minority of defendants are truly mentally insane at the time the murders were committed.
The last data I read only 1 to 3 percent of all murder defendants each year even go for the mentally insane defense, and less than 1 percent of those who do are found mentally insane by their juries. Sometimes the defense tries that defense because they simply have nothing else.
My heart still breaks for all of his many victims, and families.
Jmho